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10 Jan 2013, 5:35 am
And this year, state Sen. [read post]
8 Jan 2013, 9:59 am
Vermont, Texas, Missouri, and California (to apply to public employers) are considering social media privacy legislation. [read post]
8 Jan 2013, 7:58 am
Texas has by far the largest prison population in the nation - even though we release 70,000 inmates per year - State Sen. [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 6:34 am
Among many cases considered at that session, the Justices pondered a request from the state of Texas to grant speedy review of the state’s appeal seeking to revive its post-2010 redistricting plans for both houses of its state legislature and for its thirty-six-member delegation in the U.S. [read post]
6 Jan 2013, 10:37 am
Both cases appeared to have simply gotten lost in a high-volume system, which makes one wonder if there aren't more, similar examples out there.The high cost of clearing rape kit backlogsIt would cost the state between $7-11 million to clear the backlog of more than 20,000 untested rape kits sitting around in police evidence across the state, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. [read post]
3 Jan 2013, 12:05 pm
Brandi Grissom at the Texas Tribune had a story last year presaging this development.The Legislature created this problem by raiding the fund and they could easily fix it by throwing more money at it. [read post]
3 Jan 2013, 9:16 am
The court also pointed out a gaping flaw in the state's argument that the officers hadn't committed criminal trespass by remaining in the defendant's home without probable cause after she'd asked them to leave: The Legislature didn't create an exception to the criminal trespass law for police officers until 2009, a year after the incident in question. [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 7:38 am
In fact, Texas courts are prevented from dividing separate property between spouses. [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 4:45 am
Is that just Class Cs, here in Texas, for which the maximum punishment is only a fine? [read post]
26 Dec 2012, 4:34 am
Immigration should be something that rarely comes up on a blog devoted to state-level criminal justice issues, and Grits would be thrilled for Congress to take the issue off my plate, and even better, the Texas Legislature's. [read post]
24 Dec 2012, 9:29 am
Public Notices HHSC intends to submit to the Texas State Plan for Medical Assistance an amendment that would update the fee schedules in the current state plan by including fees for new services and by modifying fees for existing services. [read post]
24 Dec 2012, 5:48 am
The Austin Statesman has a story fleshing out the issue of administrator raises at the Texas Department of Public Safety ("Management positions, salary increase at DPS while state trooper pay raises languish," Dec. 22), a subject Grits had raised back in 2011 after state Sen. [read post]
19 Dec 2012, 4:34 am
The member of the Texas Legislature requesting the information would be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement.The Texas Tribune has questioned Zedler's past relationship with doctors and it seems to me that in reality Zedler has the interests of physicians that he is seeking to protect in mind, not the interests of workers.In a Texas Tribune article dated April 5, 2011, it states, "Zedler's critics suggest he may have another motive: Of the five… [read post]
2 Dec 2012, 12:07 pm
Texas (2003) would justify ignoring Baker, but Judge Jones was not willing to do so. [read post]
2 Dec 2012, 9:37 am
" The article mentioned a couple of Texas laws regulating snitching championed by state Sen. [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 11:24 am
In 2005, the Texas Legislature created the Texas Forensic Science Commission to investigate any and all claims of misconduct in the state’s labs. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 12:00 pm
Before now, state officials claimed understaffing problems at Texas prison units were limited to a handful of rural facilities located in areas where oil and gas production made it difficult to compete for low-waged workers. [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 11:51 am
Since then, however, access to records in the two areas about which the public most frequently requests information - government contractors and law enforcement - has been gutted by the Legislature, the courts, and a string of state Attorneys General who have consistently narrowed the act since Jim Mattox left office.For about 20-25 years after the Sharpstown Bank scandal - the corruption episode which first spawned Texas' open records and open meetings acts -… [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 11:29 am
Perry, the Supreme Court largely rejected a challenge brought by Texas voters that the redistricting scheme dreamed up by the Republican legislature was wholly unconstitutional, in part because the justices believed that there was no workable test for judging partisan excess. read more [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 3:10 pm
Get Up To Date On Details of New De-Identification Guidance & Other HIPAA Developments By Participating In 12/12 HIPAA Update Web Workshop Health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses (covered entities) and their business associates and leadership should check and update their policies and practices for the de-identification of protected health information (PHI) in light of newly-released Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information in… [read post]
